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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 A theoretical tradition argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs but perform worse. We test and confirm these predictions with several risk tolerance proxies.
Hvide, Hans K. +3 more
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Early Childhood Educators’ Knowledge, Self-Efficacy and Risk Tolerance for Outdoor Risky Play Following a Professional Risk Re-Framing Workshop [PDF]
Children, 2023 Children’s outdoor risky play is important for healthy development. However, Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) concern for child safety often restricts risky play affordances during childcare. To reduce this trend, an Outdoor Play Risk Re-Framing workshop
Monika Szpunar +3 more
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Associations between psychological capital, risk tolerance, and satisfaction: a study of Swedish solo self-employed workers [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionSolo self-employment is a non-standard work arrangement that can be organized in various ways, such as independent business ownership or gig-by-gig employment through umbrella companies.
Hampus Fougner, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel
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Misclassifications in Financial Risk Tolerance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper analyzes the empirical risk tolerance of individuals. Rare empirical evidence shows the role of personal behavior in both propensity toward financial risk and risk aversion.
LUCARELLI, Caterina +2 more
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Peer review: Risk and risk tolerance. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Peer review, commonly used in grant funding decisions, relies on scientists’ ability to evaluate research proposals’ quality. Such judgments are sometimes beyond reviewers’ discriminatory power and could lead to a reliance on subjective biases, including preferences for lower risk, incremental projects.
Gallo SA, Schmaling KB.
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Errors in individual risk tolerance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper focuses on risk tolerance which clearly influences financial decision making. We explore the emotional side of a risk taking behaviour, comparing alternative measures of financial risk tolerance resulting from the consilience of various ...
Gianni Brighetti +3 more
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Risk Perception of COVID-19 in Indonesia During the First Stage of the Pandemic
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Community perceptions of early-stage pandemics may have significant implications for subsequent disease control and management. Perceptions of COVID-19 among Indonesian citizens were assessed 2 months after the first reported case in the country.
Mila Tejamaya +7 more
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Risk Tolerance: Heuristic Bias Towards Investment Decision Making
Jurnal Manajemen Teori dan Terapan, 2023 Objective: This study aims to examine how risk tolerance influences the role of overconfidence bias and availability bias in investment decision-making.
Wahyu Febri Ramadhan Sudirman +3 more
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Gender Differences in Risk Tolerance [PDF]
, 2022 In this chapter, the author examines the influence of gender on financial risk tolerance. The risk tolerance is assessed by the instrument developed by Grable and Lytton in a sample that includes 272 postgraduate students of the University of Porto ...
Júlio Lobão
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Behaviour Biases and Investor Investment Decisions in Pakistan Foreign Exchange Market
Market Forces, 2022 Many investors in developing countries, including Pakistan, make incorrect decisions due to behavioral biases. Thus, this study examines the relationship between behavioral biases and investment decisions and the moderating role of “financial literacy on
Naveed Jan, Muhammad Adil
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